I was fortunate enough to be in the audience for my friend, Dave McCrory's presentation at Interop during the Future of Data Summit. Dave is currently the CTO of Basho, and he famously coined the term "data gravity" in 2010. Data gravity, or as friends have come to call it, McCrory's Law, simply states that data is attracted to data. Data now has such critical mass that processing is moving to it versus data moving to processing.

Furthermore, Dave introduced this notion of data agglomeration, where data will migrate to and stick with services that provide the best advantages. Examples of this concept include car dealerships and furniture stores being in the same vicinity, just as major cities of the world tend to be close to large bodies of water. In terms of cloud services, this is the reason why companies that incorporate weather readings are leveraging IBM Watson. IBM bought The Weather Company and all their IoT sensors, which has produced and continues to produce massive amounts of data.

I can't do enough justice to the quality of Dave's content and its context in our current hybrid IT world. His presentation was definitely worth the price of admission to Interop. Do you think data has gravity? Do you think data agglomeration will lead to multi-cloud service providers within an organization that is seeking competitive advantages? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.

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